Archive | May, 2011

Dresser Course Flying Along!

Time seems to be flying by as Don and Bob are nearing the finish line on their dressers. Each one of the guys is making a fine dresser out of solid cherry, complete with hand-cut dovetails and hand-planed drawer bottoms, as well as a beautiful mortise-and-tenon back with raised panels. Here they are cutting the […]

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Finished Dresser Pictures

Well we finished the model dresser for our dresser course and I am quite pleased on how it turned out. Our dresser course is well underway, actually we are on the fifth day of the class and the students are moving along quite well. (More on this in the next post.) As promised, I have […]

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Letter Carving

Today I spent a good part of the day doing something that I don’t usually do everyday, carving Hebrew letters! I really enjoy carving and have done some throughout the past 15 years or so, from chip carved signs to hand carved eagles. It seems like I tend to do more letter carving than anything. […]

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A Dovetail Workout!

Tim, our new apprentice and I have been working feverishly on the prototype for our new 4- drawer dresser class. This class will be chocked full of wonderful opportunities to learn many new skills as well as the possibility of improving your dovetail skills! We have cut the dados by hand with a saw and […]

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Great Foundational Course Completed

We just finished up another foundational course with folks traveling from all over the USA.  David and Paul are brothers, one living in Washington State and the other living in Florida. Here they are hard at work, carefully paring the tenons on their tables! Here is Bill from Colorado, hand-sawing the tapers on the legs […]

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